Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961), The Tarnished Angels (1957), Come September (1961), Send Me No Flowers (1964), The Last Sunset (1961), The Lawless Breed (1953), Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Rock Hudson movies.
Storyline: In New York, the interior decorator Jan Morrow and the wolf composer Brad Allen share a party line, but Brad keeps it busy most of the time flirting with his girlfriends. They do not know each other but Jan hates Brads since she needs the telephone for her business and can not use it. Coincidently Jan's wealthy client Jonathan Forbes that woos her is the best friend of Brad and he comments with him that he feels an unrequited love for Jan, who is a gorgeous woman. When Brad meets Jan by chance in a restaurant, he poses as a naive tourist from Texas named Rex Stetson and seduces her. But Jonathan hires a private eye to find who Rex Stetson is.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, classic film, 1950s, misunderstanding, music, songs ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies. Annoyed by Jerry's methods of using alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency, Carol tries to get him thrown out of his profession. To avoid this Jerry bribes the girl who'd testify against him, by starring her in a TV commercial for a product named VIP that he's just made up. By accident these commercials are broadcasted and to keep his job, Jerry has to come up with VIP for which he enlists the help of Doctor Linus Tyler. Carol goes to see the Doctor to try and get the VIP account, but because she and Jerry have never met, she mistakes Jerry for the Doctor. Jerry then takes advantage of this situation to win her.—Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, romantic comedy, classic, 1960s, hollywood, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, film noir, adaptation, literary adaptation, american film, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa to find three problems lying in wait for him. Firstly, his long-time girlfriend Lisa Fellini has given up waiting for him to pop the question and has decided to marry another man. Secondly, the major domo of his villa, Maurice Clavell, has turned the estate into a posh hotel to make some easy money while the boss isn't around. And, finally, the current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls trying to fend off a gang of oversexed boys, led by Tony, who are 'laying siege' at the outer walls of the villa. Talbot, to his own surprise, finds himself becoming an overprotective chaperone.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, romantic comedy, 1960s, italy, vacation, wealthy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.—Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, misunderstanding, 1960s, american film, color film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: western, drama, romance, revenge, fugitive, gunfight, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Released from jail, John Wesley Hardin leaves an account of his life with the local newspaper. It tells of his overly religious father, his resulting life of cards and guns, and his love for his step-sister replaced on her death during a gun fight with that for dance-hall girl Rosie.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: western, biographical, outlaw, texas, revenge, historical, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An all-talk tackle salesman (Rock Hudson) is forced by a PR woman (Paula Prentiss) to fish in a tournament.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, fishing, 1960s, sports, competition, disguise ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he's a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others. But he finds that to protect his charges, he has to kill.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, historical, drama, biographical, military, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One long and painful decade after the brutal assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and fugitive anarchist poet, Sebastian, when he breaks into her ancestral castle in nineteenth-century Oberwald. In this dark and stormy night, bold Sebastian is bent on killing the grief-stricken aristocrat; however, the would-be assassin's striking resemblance to her late husband paves the way for an unexpected three-day pact, without turning him in to the police, and the ignoble Count of Foehn. Nevertheless, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: science fiction, mars, space exploration, aliens, dystopian, interstellar travel, retro style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Bartholomew Snow, a psychiatrist, is treating a man with emotional problems who, it turns out, is a brilliant scientist being pursued by different international powers and their operatives. Snow soon finds himself caught in the middle and out of desperation, he falls in with a mysterious and beautiful woman named Vicky Vincenti. But is she helping him, or is she yet another sinister figure out to manipulate him?—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, mystery, film noir, psychological thriller, spy, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, romance, action, adventure, drama, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Spies follow a PR woman (Doris Day) who works for a space scientist (Rod Taylor) and whose father (Arthur Godfrey) runs a sightseeing boat.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, spy, misunderstanding, 1960s, hollywood, classic ...
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